Alessandro Toppi
Senior SFU Engineer at Stream
Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolAlessandro Toppi is a Senior SFU Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building and optimizing real-time communication systems, particularly WebRTC and streaming infrastructure. He has deep backend expertise in C, Java, JavaScript/Node.js and Go, and a track record of improving reliability for media servers—most notably contributing to the Janus WebRTC Server to harden WebSocket, ICE, DTLS and RTP/RTCP handling. His career spans telecom-grade IMS work with SIP/Diameter to designing customer-facing WebRTC applications, testing frameworks and SDKs, showing fluency across protocol, server and application layers. A self-taught, curiosity-driven engineer with top academic honors from Università Federico II, he also brings practical experience with distributed stores, messaging (RabbitMQ, XMPP) and caching systems. Colleagues rely on him for debugging and stress-testing complex real-time flows where subtle packet and lifecycle issues matter.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Dottore Ingegnere, Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria Informatica, 110/110 (magna cum laude), Dottore Ingegnere, Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria Informatica, 110/110 (magna cum laude) at Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II'Diploma, Piano Nazionale Informatico, 100/100, Diploma, Piano Nazionale Informatico, 100/100 at Liceo Scientifico
Italian, English
Github Skills (9)
c1710
websocket10
c1110
rtcp10
rtp10
dtls9
openssl9
ice9
webrtc8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
meetecho/janus-gateway
Feb 2016 - Jan 2023
Janus WebRTC Server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:127 reviews, 306 commits, 109 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Alessandro made several contributions related to the Janus WebRTC Server, specifically focusing on improving the server's handling of WebSockets and RTP/RTCP packets. The changes include optimizing connection handling with libwebsockets, improving the lifecycle management of ICE loop, and addressing packet processing to reduce errors and enhance reliability. Furthermore, the user also contributed fixes related to DTLS and handling of RTCP for sendonly video connections.
webrtc
meetecho/janode
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
A Node.js adapter for the Janus WebRTC server
Contributions:21 releases, 22 reviews, 66 commits in 1 year 2 months
nodejswebrtc
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